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• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspectives including masculinity, performance, plant biology, empire, politics and

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 17 October 2012

This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 24 January 2012

Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page.

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 13 May 2010

Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, perverse, camp and gay directions of the

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 28 May 2019

A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain Britain had no idea that it would not see another

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 19 January 2016

The Handbook to Romanticism Studies is an accessible and indispensible resource providing students and scholars with a rich array of historical and up-to-date critical and theoretical contexts for the study

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 17 November 2016

This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine. It explores the pivotal role fiber played as a defining, underlying concept

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 18 January 2024

The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral part of literary texts. This volume considers how the two dynamic

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 27 January 2012

Vividly illustrated, The Doctor Dissected examines the the sensational serial killings--known as the Anatomy Murders--that roiled Scotland in the early nineteenth century and considers their checkered afterlife in novels, plays,